Comments for Matt Freer's blog http://mattfreer.wordpress.com Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:10:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Finished Zambia Photo Book by Ros Holland http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/zambia-photobook/#comment-321 Ros Holland Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:10:46 +0000 http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/11/23/zambia-photobook-2/#comment-321 2 years? WOW! That has really flown :o) Hope you are all well... will be returning the nappy wraps shortly! 2 years? WOW! That has really flown :o ) Hope you are all well… will be returning the nappy wraps shortly!

]]> Comment on Cohousing article by Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/cohousing-article/#comment-319 Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:46:59 +0000 http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/?p=694#comment-319 It may be hard, but it is absolutely worth the effort. After nearly a decade living in community I find it hard to imagine going back to being in an isolated individual home. The key thing to remember is: you recruit allies and work on it together, so you can accomplish far more than any of you could have individually. Raines, from Berkeley (California) Cohousing currently visiting and advising Manzanita Village (Prescott, AZ) and off to a Phoenix Intentional Communities gathering this evening. It may be hard, but it is absolutely worth the effort. After nearly a decade living in community I find it hard to imagine going back to being in an isolated individual home. The key thing to remember is: you recruit allies and work on it together, so you can accomplish far more than any of you could have individually.

Raines, from Berkeley (California) Cohousing
currently visiting and advising Manzanita Village (Prescott, AZ) and off to a Phoenix Intentional Communities gathering this evening.

]]> Comment on 100,000 paper airplanes and Heima online by Jenny Mac http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/100000-paper-airplanes-and-heima-online/#comment-318 Jenny Mac Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:26:12 +0000 http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/?p=689#comment-318 I love the harmony of it all - reminiscent of the harmony achieved in 'As it is in Heaven'. I love the harmony of it all – reminiscent of the harmony achieved in ‘As it is in Heaven’.

]]> Comment on Understanding Prayer – Something Understood by Matt Rees http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/understanding-prayer-something-understood/#comment-303 Matt Rees Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:43:33 +0000 http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/understanding-prayer-something-understood/#comment-303 glad you've had fresh air in your ears! thanks for this - v helpful. For a while now I too have been looking for some new understanding of intercessory prayer. I have found it much more helpful to almost picture holding someone up to God - which is very similar to what Rowan is saying here. Don't know about you but I got to a point of finding a lot of intercessory prayer quite trite. It felt a little ridiculous to be telling God what a person needed when I assume he already knows! So the idea of just holding them and their situation before God is much more helpful. glad you’ve had fresh air in your ears! thanks for this – v helpful. For a while now I too have been looking for some new understanding of intercessory prayer. I have found it much more helpful to almost picture holding someone up to God – which is very similar to what Rowan is saying here.
Don’t know about you but I got to a point of finding a lot of intercessory prayer quite trite. It felt a little ridiculous to be telling God what a person needed when I assume he already knows! So the idea of just holding them and their situation before God is much more helpful.

]]> Comment on Inspiration by Micha Jazz http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/inspiration/#comment-301 Micha Jazz Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:18:45 +0000 http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/?p=614#comment-301 Thanks Matt. Won't see you at Greenbelt this year but have fun. As for Brussels can only remember chips and mayo! Love Micha Thanks Matt. Won’t see you at Greenbelt this year but have fun. As for Brussels can only remember chips and mayo! Love Micha

]]> Comment on Hope for a tree cut down by Inspiration « Matt Freer’s blog http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/hope-for-a-tree-cut-down/#comment-299 Inspiration « Matt Freer’s blog Wed, 12 Aug 2009 08:13:45 +0000 http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/?p=474#comment-299 [...] “Be the change you want to see” Enjoying the quote above, credited to Mahatma Ghandi, at the moment. Came across it recently here, and finding it inspirational especially when played alongside the song Given, from the album Hope for a Tree Cut Down. [...] [...] “Be the change you want to see” Enjoying the quote above, credited to Mahatma Ghandi, at the moment. Came across it recently here, and finding it inspirational especially when played alongside the song Given, from the album Hope for a Tree Cut Down. [...]

]]> Comment on HOME – a film by Yann Arthus-Bertrand by Age of Stupid « Matt Freer’s blog http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/home-a-film-by-yann-arthus-bertrand/#comment-298 Age of Stupid « Matt Freer’s blog Mon, 29 Jun 2009 07:41:53 +0000 http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/?p=570#comment-298 [...] been a spate of films on climate change and environment themes of late – I’ve mentioned Home already, there is also End of the Line, a film about the effect of overfishing which I’ve not [...] [...] been a spate of films on climate change and environment themes of late – I’ve mentioned Home already, there is also End of the Line, a film about the effect of overfishing which I’ve not [...]

]]> Comment on Benedict and community by shannon http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/benedict-and-community/#comment-296 shannon Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:29:48 +0000 http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/?p=508#comment-296 Matt-- You also might enjoy Radical Hospitality. Matt– You also might enjoy Radical Hospitality.

]]> Comment on The road not taken by Hospitality and Jean Vanier « Matt Freer’s blog http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/the-road-not-taken/#comment-295 Hospitality and Jean Vanier « Matt Freer’s blog Tue, 07 Apr 2009 07:21:39 +0000 http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/?p=484#comment-295 [...] books I’ve read on the area of community. So I was particularly pleased to hear this weeks Something Understood that looks at Hospitality with a rare interview with Jean [...] [...] books I’ve read on the area of community. So I was particularly pleased to hear this weeks Something Understood that looks at Hospitality with a rare interview with Jean [...]

]]> Comment on Cadbury’s Dairy Milk goes Fairtrade by Christine Sine http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/cadburys-dairy-milk-goe-fairtrade/#comment-283 Christine Sine Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:42:14 +0000 http://mattfreer.wordpress.com/?p=502#comment-283 Matt, Great news. I wish that there was advocacy like this in the US to make Hersheys go fair trade but alas the US is so far behind the times in issues like this. Matt,
Great news. I wish that there was advocacy like this in the US to make Hersheys go fair trade but alas the US is so far behind the times in issues like this.

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